Correlation Between Emergency Response Strategies and Administration of Public Secondary Schools in North Central, Nigeria
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.64348/zije.2026388Keywords:
Emergency responses, Strategies, AdministrationAbstract
This study investigated emergency response strategies and administration of public secondary schools in North Central Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to investigate relationship between emergency response strategies and administration of public secondary schools. Seven research questions guided the study, while seven hypotheses were formulated and tested. Correlational research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 42,235 teachers from 6,601 public secondary schools in North Central Nigeria with a sample of 1255 respondents which was using multi-stage sampling procedure involving stratified, purpose and simple random sampling techniques. The instruments that were used for data collection were questionnaires titled “Emergency Response Strategies Questionnaire (ERSQ)” and “Administration of Public Secondary Schools Questionnaire (APSSQ)”. The questionnaires were structured on four-point rating scale. A trial test of the instrument was conducted on 30 teachers in two public secondary schools in Plateau and Kwara States using Cronbach Alpha statistic. The result yielded a grand co-efficient of 0.93 for ERSQ and 0.90 for APSSQ. Data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) to answer the three research questions and test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study showed emergency response strategies such as emergency preparedness plans, community participation, monitoring and evaluation, strategies have a strong significant positive relationship with administration of public secondary schools in North Central, Nigeria. The study concluded that effective application of emergency response strategies brings about improvement in administration of public secondary schools. It was recommended among other things that the Ministries of Education should mandate and monitor comprehensive emergency preparedness plans, standardized procedures and regular safety drills in public secondary schools to enable principals to respond effectively to emergencies and ensure continuity of teaching and learning. Principals of schools should also actively engage community stakeholders, including PTAs and local leaders in school safety and emergency management through structured involvement and resource mobilization in order to promote collaborative decision-making, enhanced coordination and improved support for school activities.
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